THE ART BOOK PAGE THREE
Caterpillars

Students will learn about making patterns as they create a paper caterpillar.

Objectives:

This Art Book was created to help art educators by giving them another form of assessment. So many times we as art educators find it difficult to assess a child's progress when projects are sent home. By using portfolio assessment it is easier to judge a child's progress because you can see it from beginning to end.

Talk about patterns. How they repeat, and the different types of
patterns (color, numbers, shapes, letters, etc.) Have them try to find
patterns on their clothes or around the room. Once they understand the
basic of patterns, that they repeat then you are ready to start the
lesson.

Have student round the corners of the squares to create circles.
Then they need to arrange it in a pattern (red, yellow, blue, red, yellow, blue, etc.) or whatever color they want to come first, on the
construction paper.

Once you have checked that they have completed the pattern correctly
they can glue it down on the white paper (have them arrange it so it
looks like a caterpillar)

After they have glued on the circles and created a caterpillar they
can then use their crayons to add details, like legs, antenna's, etc.

Then they glue the whole project on the large colored construction
paper.